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Retail sales for May (excluding vehicle and gasoline purchases) rose by 3.1 percent year over year on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Nonstore sales — a category that comprises all online sales, including those processed by physical retailers, plus the sales of mail-order companies — rose by 11.4 percent. Health and personal-care stores saw their sales increase by 3.4 percent for the month, while restaurant and drinking establishment sales went up by 3.7 percent. Sales at general-merchandise stores as a whole rose by 3.3 percent, but the sales of traditional and discount department stores — a subset of general merchandise — declined by 4.6 percent.
Food-and-beverage store sales went up by 1.6 percent, and furniture stores saw a 0.6 percent increase.
Clothing sales declined by 2.3 percent, electronics store sales dropped by 2.4 percent, and sales of stores selling sporting goods, hobby merchandise, books and music went down by 4.2 percent.
By Edmund Mander
Director, Editor-In-Chief/SCT
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